Professional Writing

Dates: Monday 5 - Friday 9 July 2010

Times: 9.30am- 3.30pm, with an hour's break for lunch.

Venue: University College Falmouth, Woodlane Campus, Falmouth, TR11 4RH

Price: £380 (not including accommodation, which you will need to arrange separately)

Book online with our secure online payments facility

For more information: Please email Heidi James on heidi.james@falmouth.ac.uk or call 01326 253701.

Guest accommodation in Falmouth

Please note that places on the Professional Writing Summer School are limited to 16, and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Early booking is recommended.

The course

If you've ever thought about making money from your writing, this five-day summer school will give you plenty of ideas about how to start doing so.

You'll explore some of the key skills needed by professional writers across a range of forms, from telling stories and creating characters to copywriting for business and developing ideas for feature articles and non-fiction books. Whatever your previous experience, the course will encourage you to stretch your capabilities and try your hand at new forms and techniques.

The summer school will be taught entirely by successful practising writers, who will share their inside knowledge of the writing profession, help you to decide where your talents lie and inspire you to take your work to a new level of creativity.

One participant on last year's summer school wrote: "The course offers the would-be writer an excellent insight into the many different ways of marketing their writing skills." Another commented: "The course far exceeded my expectations in professionalism and useful content."

Your tutors

Running one-day workshops for the Professional Writing Summer School are:

Tim Pears, whose first novel, In the Place of Fallen Leaves, won both the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award and whose latest, Blenheim Orchard, was described by The Daily Mail as "a brilliantly insightful family saga, full of comedy and sadness".

Susannah Marriott, a freelance writer and editor who has published more than 20 non-fiction books on subjects ranging from complementary medicine to folklore.

Jane Pugh, who has worked as a script editor at both the BBC and Carlton Television, on series including Peak Practice and Ballykissangel, and has also written several short dramas for Channel 4.

Oliver Bennett, a prolific features journalist and travel writer whose work appears regularly in national magazines and newspapers including the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph.

Piers Alder, Head of Content at Duttons, a leading branding agency working with many major UK and international brands, and a partner at digital marketing agency Raww.